The Failure of the United States’ Chinese-Hacking Indictment Strategy | Lawfare

Final paragraph:

"The bottom line is that United States continues to be asymmetrically vulnerable to cybersecurity threats against private-sector companies on which U.S. economic and national security depend. By and large, the private sector has not been incentivized to invest in measures sufficient to prevent major compromises of intellectual property and trade secrets. And U.S. commitments to free speech, privacy and limitations on domestic government surveillance make it difficult for the U.S. government to identify, prevent and respond to malicious cyber operations. These domestic issues add to the geopolitical complexities that have paralyzed the U.S. government from responding more vigorously, leaving the country with a series of high-profile criminal indictments that have achieved no discernibly positive effects and that might, on balance, be self-defeating."

On a related note, see this review of “Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat”
The Failure of the United States’ Chinese-Hacking Indictment Strategy | Lawfare